This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

Reaching this deal is really, really big.

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

That's what the United States does.

Hello and welcome to Words Matter from The D.O.C.R. Network.

Each week Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head

into the midterms and what our leaders are saying and doing about them.

So today we've got an action-packed podcast.

More than usual, we're going to try to hit a number of topics.

We wanted to cover just a touch on the railroad strike, railroad worker strike and just some

of the recent developments.

Also want to hit on a number of international matters.

Certainly Ukraine and Russia dominate the international headlines, but there are so many forces

globally that are affecting anybody's day-to-day lives, even without them realizing.

And then finally in our bonus content, we'll spend some time talking about this incredible

debate literally and figuratively between Federman and Oz, the candidates for the United States

Senate in Pennsylvania and how that is turning out to be a bit of a cluster for a lot of reasons

that have most of it to do with Mehmet Oz and some of it to do with the media coverage

of Oz and Federman.

So with that, let's get started Norm.

I think there's so many things that are happening and we recently spoke with one of your colleagues

Michael Strain just about the economic outlook overall and touched on a number of labor issues,

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